INDUSTRIAL

First 5 Minutes compliance solutions ensure your site is fully compliant for optimised life and fire safety.

Industrial sites of all sizes and operations are required to maintain total compliance to the regulations for fire safety and emergency response. Let us manage your compliance for you, with our complete emergency training and management solutions.

Compliance Solutionsfor Industrial Buildings

Industrial building/complex owners and managers are required to ensure that their building is fully compliant with fire safety and emergency planning regulations, to provide a high level of life and fire safety for their employees/building occupants and visitors.

First 5 Minutes' comprehensive fire safety and emergency response solutions are designed to ensure that your building’s emergency response management is fully compliant to Australian Standards AS 3745-2010: Planning for emergencies in facilities and AS 1851-2012: Routine service of fire protection systems and equipment, the National Construction Code (NCC) / Building Code of Australia (BCA), Workplace Health & Safety (WHS) regulations and legislation enacted in the Commonwealth, States and Territories.

We work closely with you to develop and implement a complete and effective Emergency Management Plans, including site-specific Emergency Response Procedures, customised to meet the requirements of your building’s structure, business operations and occupancy.

First 5 Minutes delivers comprehensive ECO (Emergency Control Organisation)/warden and building occupant emergency training programs fit for purpose to your building to ensure your staff are fully prepared for emergency response. Our training will equip your staff with best practice skills for when and how to lock down, or evacuate the building, according to the type of emergency. To ensure ongoing compliance and emergency preparedness, we provide regular 2 or 3 visit training packages (annually), depending on your training requirements.

Let us manage your compliance solutions. With First 5 Minutes you know your building is fully compliant, maximising life and fire safety for your occupants.

AS 3745-2010: Planning for emergencies in facilities, requires the establishment of an Emergency Planning Committee (EPC). Members of the EPC are responsible for the documentation, implementation and maintenance of the Emergency Management Plan.

First 5 Minutes works closely with your EPC and can facilitate/chair the EPC meetings to help assess the effectiveness of the Emergency Management Plan and Emergency Control Organisation (ECO), identify any deficiencies in the performance of the plan, and to implement improvements where needed.

Let us help your EPC achieve and maintain ongoing compliance and maximise life and fire safety at your building.

To maximise the fire safety of a building, to enhance the emergency response preparedness of building wardens and to provide action plans for other building occupants in an event of an emergency, Workplace Health & Safety regulations and AS 3745-2010: Planning for emergencies in facilities require the development and implementation of a site-specific Emergency Management Manual (EMM).

The EMM must be developed in full compliance to AS 3745-2010, inspected and tested at the specified periodic intervals, and maintained to the requirements of Section 14 of AS 1851-2012: Routine service of fire protection systems and equipment.

First 5 Minutes works closely with your Emergency Planning Committee (EPC) to develop and implement a complete and effective EMM, fit for purpose to meet your building’s life and fire safety compliance requirement. We also offer EMM review services, where we can assist your EPC with the periodic inspections, review and testing of your emergency plan.

Under AS 3745-2010: Planning for emergencies in facilities, an Emergency Control Organisation (ECO) must be established to facilitate the safe and orderly implementation of the emergency response procedures, including the evacuation of the employees/occupants from the building. The ECO is a structured team of employees/building occupants that assume command during an emergency, until the arrival of the fire brigade and other emergency services.

ECO members work within the command, control and coordination of the emergency response procedures.

The ECO should consist of the following:

Chief Warden, Deputy Chief Warden and/or Emergency Coordinator

Communication Officer and Deputy

Floor and Area Wardens and Deputies

Wardens and Deputies

First 5 Minutes provides comprehensive warden skills training programs to ensure your building’s ECO is competent and effective. The training is performed in full compliance with AS 3745-2010: Planning for emergencies in facilities.

Government regulations require building managers to provide their building occupants with education and training, so that they are prepared to respond to emergencies promptly and safely. This includes all employees/occupants – not just those who are members of the Emergency Control Organisation (ECO).

Our occupant emergency response training programs are designed to fully comply with AS 3745-2010: Planning for emergencies in facilities.

All industrial buildings are required to perform a building evacuation exercise at least once every 12 months. All occupants of the building are required to participate in the evacuation exercise in compliance with AS 3745-2010: Planning for emergencies in facilities.

The purpose of the evacuation exercise is to test the effectiveness of the written Emergency Management Manual (EMM) and test the competency of the members of the Emergency Control Organisation (ECO). First 5 Minutes can assist in the planning and implementation of site specific evacuation exercises in coordination with your Emergency Planning Committee (EPC) and the ECO. We will conduct a briefing/meeting (pre-evacuation exercise) with the EPC and ECO to state the objectives and expected outcomes of the evacuation exercise. The meeting will describe the scenario and procedures of the exercise. We will observe the evacuation exercise, identify any deficiency and recommend ways to improve the Emergency Management Plan and established Emergency Response Procedures. Afterwards, we will hold a detailed debriefing session with members of the ECO so that your wardens have the opportunity to gauge the ECO response and to identify any deficiency in the emergency response procedures and its implementation. At the end of the exercise, we will attend the debriefing with the ECO and analyse the recorded events. A report will be made and submitted to the EPC with the observation made and recommended solution to identified deficiencies.

We will provide your EPC with a comprehensive evacuation exercise report, recording the sequence of events, observations made, identify any deficiencies during the performance of the exercise and provide recommendations for improvement.

Every industrial building must have evacuation diagrams developed and displayed. These must be displayed in conspicuous positions on the building’s emergency evacuation route and orientated to the building’s layout.

The evacuation diagrams are to educate and inform all occupants of the evacuation routes to be used in an emergency and the location of fire equipment that may be required during the emergency, the Assembly Areas and who to call in the event of an emergency. The evacuation diagrams must be in full compliance with AS 3745-2010: Planning for emergencies in facilities.

First 5 Minutes produces Evacuation Diagrams as part of the developed Emergency Management Plan for the building.